Tie-pin retainer.



A. J. SMIELINSKI.

TIE PIN RETAINEIL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26. 1916.

1 05,488. Patented Nov. 21 1916.

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$1 la s anew ANTHONY J. SMIELINSKI, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TIE-PIN RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 26, 1916. Serial No. 99,933.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, ANTHONY J. SMIEL INSKI, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented vcertain new and useful Improvements in Tie-Pin Retainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for securing and protecting pins of an ornamental nature, such as are used in connection with neck-ties, headwear, and the like.

The principal object of the invention is to provide means whereby the point of the pin is protected against injury to itself, or injuring articles or persons with whom it may contact.

A second object of no less importance is to provide means whereby the pin is positively locked against withdrawal when once the keeper has been atlixed to it.

These objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts here after described and shown in the accompanying drawing,--in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pin, showing the application of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of.

the keeper with the end of the pin entered therein, and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 33 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing, the pin shaft or shank 10 is provided with a head 1.1 which may be of any preferred design the pin terminating in a point 12 containing a central longitudinal aperture 13 formed by swaging, milling or other mechanical means; the keeper or sheath 15 may be of any preferred form, having atransverse cross bar 16 at the top and curved point 17 at the bottom. This keeper may be made of any preferred material, the walls inelosing a space 18 into which the pin shaft 10 enters through an opening 19 in the bar 16 near one of its sides; attached to the opposite side is a wire 20 extending downward near the bottom 17, where it is formed into a spring loop 21, the extended end being coiled at 22, further extended at 28 to a final coil 24, from which extends an arm 25 outturned at 26, and having secured to it a knob 27 beyond the wall of the keeper.

The coils 22 and 24 are screw-threaded internally, and adapted to receive'the threaded shank 30 of the anchor element 32, the head of which is flattened and adapted to enter the elongated opening 13 formed near the point of the pin shaft under normal conditions. 7

In operation, the keeper is passed over the point ofthe pin until the opening 1 3 is entered below the bar 16, and then turned slowly until the anchor head 32. engages Patented-NOV. 21, 1916.

27 whereupon the anchor is pressed out of the slot releasing the pin.

In certain forms of pins it is desirable to engage the opening at relative distances,

with respect to the head, and for that pur-' pose adjustment is provided by the threaded shank 30, so that the head 32 may engage with the aperture 13 either immediately below the bar 16, or at a point nearer the bottom 17.

Obviously, the pinis held locked under the pressure of the spring in a firm and secure manner, so that the same may not turn or be pulled outwardly under any possible pressure except such as may cause rupture of the parts.

It will be further evident that the keeper .may be made in other forms and ornamented to any extent desired. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a pin having an elongated slotformed therethrough near the point end thereof, of a keeper adapted to receive said pin including the point and mentioned slot, a spring element secured within the said keeper, a spring loop formed in said element, a plurality of eyes formed in the free end of said element, said eyes being screw-threaded, an anchor having a stem suited to said eyes whereby it may be adjusted longitudinally, said anchor being adapted to enter the mentioned slot and held normally therein by said spring element, and means extending through the walls of said keeper for releasing said anchor.

Signed at Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga, and State of'Ohio, this 15th day of May, 1916.

ANTHONY J. SMIELINSKI.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for live cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

